High-gain inner-shell photoionization laser in Cd vapor pumped by soft-x-ray radiation from a laser-produced plasma source
Silfvast, W.T.; Macklin, J.J.; Ii, O.R.
Optics Letters 8(11): 551-553
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0146-9592 PMID: 19718180 DOI: 10.1364/ol.8.000551
Accession: 053546197
A soft-x-ray-pumped inner-shell photoionization laser has been produced in Cd vapor at 4416 and 3250 A. A gain of 5.6 cm(-1) has been measured at 4416 A, and a reasonably high-energy storage of 0.2 mJ/cm(3) in the upper laser states has been obtained.
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